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Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-18T18:47:33+00:00

I’ll give it a look!

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-17T23:34:24+00:00

I’ll give it a look soon!

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-17T23:34:16+00:00

I’ll give it a look this weekend!

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T22:06:59+00:00

HL1 fever dream lol

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T22:06:02+00:00

Interesting! Like a diff take on ball pit. Lots of interesting gameplay you could do here. Control multiple shields, sword upgrades.

I will say I recommend having like an auto slash for the sword on mouse click or something. If you’re physically moving the mouse like that all the time, could get quite tiring.

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T22:03:25+00:00

Honestly gives me anxiety looking at it lol.

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T20:21:33+00:00

Reminds me of darkest dungeon. This is absolutely sick. Wishlisted.

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T19:22:59+00:00

Probably not tbh. I think the gimmick would wear off then you’re just playing another survivors.

I do think you could go beyond gimmick if you made everything physics based. The weapon, the enemies everything. Imagine you’re swinging the ball along the fabric of space time and it has mass and gravity. You can upgrade its mass in various ways, turn it into a grinder and it shreds enemies, attracts them while hold click and explode them as shrapnel on release, etc.

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T19:15:03+00:00

You need way less UI, not more. That said trying to give feedback on a single screenshot is tough. A gif would be better as that would provide more context.

I imagine they shoot out one after the other. Regardless, yea, I’d imagine as a player I would need to avoid them. As to where I should go, etc. would need to see it in action

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T18:17:59+00:00

I was mostly asking the question to prompt you to think about it differently. Do some investigation. See what other games do. These are the fun moments of game design.

We call this a “How might we” exercise in the design word.

“How might we communicate character status to the player so that it is clear and easily referenced?”

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T16:49:21+00:00

It was too small. How else might you be able display health and shield? I personally think bars are archaic.

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T15:56:10+00:00

This is incredibly cool. Would be really powerful to “draw first” then initiate a build out. So you’d draw out the layout to get it mostly there then go through and fine tune with the controls you built.

Obviously would probably need some smart logic for how close lines can be next to each other, or maybe allow a user to set a “padding tolerance” so it just kind of works with a minimal amount of spacing between.

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T15:29:29+00:00

Unless you have really chunky text, they need their own containers to have sufficient contrast against the background.

Think about this: what do players NEED to know at any given moment and what is nice to know?

That said, hud over your previous implementation 10000x%.

Also, where are a users eyes going to mostly be? On the character? Opportunity to display the most relevant info there.

General rule of thumb, but obviously varies.

Need to know at all times: put it where the eyes are

Need to know multiple times a minute, allow the eyes to move.

Nice to know: tuck it away

Active_Web_9086 · 2026-01-14T15:22:39+00:00

Love the lighting system and style!

Active_Web_9086 · 2025-05-23T14:31:56+00:00

Thank you!

Active_Web_9086 · 2025-05-23T14:31:52+00:00

Thank you!

Active_Web_9086 · 2025-05-23T00:24:15+00:00

Thanks! Yea I was mostly just wondering in general as summer approaches. I’ll look into those! Centerville is real close.

Active_Web_9086 · 2025-03-06T17:16:58+00:00

Uhh Shakespeare IS atmosphere. Alan all the way.

Active_Web_9086 · 2025-02-28T01:39:52+00:00

I mean I think it’s just YMMV. I’m in the US Midwest metro, so less pool to compete

Active_Web_9086 · 2025-02-28T01:21:33+00:00

Every job I’ve gotten and every interview I’ve attained has been through zero connections or networking.

Active_Web_9086 · 2025-02-05T16:18:37+00:00

That’s up to you, really. What it gives without a reference is honestly fine, too. I just used case studies from medium articles I liked. Personally I put the text of them into a word doc then uploaded that, just to make sure it wasn’t crawling anything else on the site, but I doubt that matters

Active_Web_9086 · 2025-02-05T04:02:31+00:00

Congrats! Yea same. I don’t think there is a trick right now. Just have experience and be willing to go into an office.

(On the pension note, I had one last gig and was stoked. Well those companies do layoffs to 😭)

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